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AUGI HotNews February 2011 – Now Available

The February 2011 issue of AUGI HotNews is now available for your reading pleasure. Check out this month’s issue for these great topics:

• CAD-Room Bullying
  Bullying isn't confined to the school yard. Mark Kiker finds bullies in the CAD environment as well. Do you recognize a colleague in these five types of CAD room bullies? Worse, do you recognize yourself?

• Cha, Cha, Changes!
  AUGI members will benefit from a new, streamlined publication schedule. AUGI AEC | Edge content will be brought into the AUGIWorld fold and AUGIWorld will increase its publishing frequency from bi-monthly to monthly. More details on this, plus the various ways you can connect with AUGI via social media.

Columns

• TIPniques: Parametrics in AutoCAD, Part 2
  Brian Benton takes a closer look at Parametrics in AutoCAD. This month, the focus is how and when to use geometric constraints.

• HP SpacePilot Pro Relieves Design Work Stress
  HP's SpacePilot Pro Intelligent Controller boosts productivity while relieving physical stress.

VIEW AUGI HotNews – February 2011

The New and Improved AUGIWorld magazine – Now available for download and online!

AUGI is pleased to announce that the latest issue of AUGIWorld is now available for download via PDF and online via digital edition. Could BIM Stand for Build Improved Milieu? Author Troy DeGroot gets into what Ulteig’s Building Services Sector experienced during its transition to BIM. Click Here to download the AUGIWorld February 2011 issue. Also in this issue of AUGIWorld: Steve Stafford, AUGIWorld Editor-in-Chief explains the new AUGIWorld and what is in store for AUGI members Gabe Cottam dives into the Visibility / Graphic Overrides for Revit Links Christian Barrett breaks down a Civil 3D Guide to 10 Map 3D Tools Paul Crickard III explains moving from Revit to PDF: An Interactive Model Viewer David Raynor utilizes Design Options with Revit MEP Phil Pleiss shows how easy it is to Calculate Flows for Sizing Duct and Pipe The Autodesk Insider sits down with David Mills Brian Andresen takes a look at the future of LUGs Erik Lewis has the latest industry news in the Inside Track William Troeak gathers in Heads Up all the latest updates, services packs and top known issues.

AUGI Combines Publications

In 2009 Autodesk User Group International launched a new publication – AUGI | AEC Edge. Devoted to the AEC market, it was started so that AEC articles could be published on a regular basis. The magazine was published on a seasonal basis but had no set release schedule.

In late 2010 the AUGI Board began a review of all current publications and entered into 2011 with the goal of increasing content and increasing regularity on issue dates. As such, the AUGI Board has made the following adjustments, starting with a new February 2011 AUGIWorld issue.

• AUGI | AEC EDGE will be rebranded as AUGIWorld.
• The A/E/C content will remain, the articles and columns that have been embraced by our subscribers and the industry will continue.
• New industry content such as Civil and Manufacturing will be added.
• AUGIWorld will increase publication to monthly.
• AUGI | AEC Edge will cease title publication however all past issues will remain available online.

Everything that was great about AUGI | AEC Edge will continue, just under the AUGIWorld masthead. Feature content topics will be expanded in the future to include regular Civil and Manufacturing sections. Distribution via email notification to all opt-in subscribers will be increaseing from the 90,000 AUGI | AEC EDGE subscribers to 130,000 AUGIWorld subscribers.

And all content will be available online via the new AUGI Library. We look forward to the expanded reach of AUGI membership content.